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These Charts Prove Facebook Is A Better Place To Work Than Google

When it comes to desirable places to work in the tech industry, two companies are always at the top of the list: Facebook and Google.

But which one is really the better employer?

To answer that question, we compared the two companies head to head,with the help of data gathered exclusively for Business Insider by Glassdoor. Glassdoor is a job hunting site where employees rate companies.

We looked at the companies in multiple rounds of comparisons and declared a winner in each round.

In 2011, Google employees were far happier with their CEO, Larry Page, than Facebook employees were with their CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Those were Facebook's pre-IPO days, when rumors were circulating that Zuckerberg planned to sell Facebook, and people were grumbling that Facebook needed a more mature CEO.

By the start of 2012, just before Facebook's IPO in May, employees were feeling great about their young CEO. His ratings wouldn't dive again until just before the so-called Facebook phone was announced, Facebook Home, and the HTC smartphone built with Home that failed fast.

Even so, Zuckerberg has eked out a slightly higher approval rating from employees overall, 97%, compared to Page of 95% of employees who approve of Page, based on at least 475 ratings per CEO.

And so far in Q4 13, Zuckerberg is enjoying a perfect 100% CEO approval rating.

“You work with some of the best and brightest in the world. Whichever field you're in there'll be at least one and probably several of the field's most renown luminaries working at Google. The perks are amazing, it's a great environment to get things done.” – Google Security Engineer (Mountain View, CA)

“Brilliant colleagues, fantastic startup-ish culture and desire to do things the right way, interesting and widely varied technologies and challenges to solve, great perks to make your life comfortable.” – Facebook Production Engineer (Menlo Park, CA)

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“There isn't a lot of hand holding or pats on the back, and being critical and outspoken is rewarded almost all the time. This can get exhausting.” – Facebook Analyst (New York, NY)

Round 5: How hard is the job interview? — Facebook wins

(Score: Facebook - 4; Google - 2)

Both companies have high standards. And interviews shouldn't be too easy. But we also assume that neither company would invite a candidate to an interview if the person didn't have exceptional qualifications.

So, how hard do they make it on the person during the interview before they give an offer?

“I had a really positive overall experience during the interview and hiring process. My recruiter and hiring manager were so good at communicating next steps and they would follow up weekly to let me know where the team was at in the process.” – Facebook Program Manager interview candidate (Menlo Park, CA)